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More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 ...

Does prostate-cancer screening with the common ‘PSA’ blood test save lives? The Cochrane, an influential group renowned for its gold-standard medical reviews, has previously addressed that question ...

A sweeping analysis of sleep duration and signs of ageing in half a million adults has pinpointed a sweet spot — about six to ...

Pregnancy poses many challenges, including protecting against infection and increased nutritional demands.

Biomimetics is an interdisciplinary field in which principles from engineering, chemistry and biology are applied to the synthesis of materials, synthetic systems or machines that have functions that ...

It’s hard to imagine that a snail could kill a person, but a particularly venomous group of marine molluscs called cone ...

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of ...

Antarctic ice contains evidence that Earth entered an interstellar dust cloud more than 40,000 years ago 1. As the Solar ...

Death by paper cut. The consequences of unfettered antimicrobial resistance are as absurd as they are sinister. Harmful bacteria and other pathogens are rapidly developing countermeasures to the world ...